In the past, a few nurses working in the Critical Care Unit at Chambersburg Hospital had earned their CCRN certification, and with that, clinical manager Colleen Kylor, RN, BSN, CCRN, created a display case with information about their accomplishments.

14) The question arises whether all nurses practising in critical care are ready, willing and able to undertake the responsibility of working in a critical care unit where heavy demands will be made on their intellectual and emotional resources.

Would it be better to design a critical care unit that emphasizes efficiency and standardization in pursuit of measurable, disease-based outcomes that does not attend to the individual needs of whole persons within the context of their particular families and communities?

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